2014 CofEe Club – Centres of Excellence – What’s working, what’s not?
The 34th meeting CITI’s centres of excellence club ( CofEe) held on 24th April 2014 was hosted by Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham. The topic for the day was…
Centres of Excellence – a sound philosophy?
Dating back to the mid-nineties the UK Government essentially ‘led the charge’ in setting a trend of establishing corporate centres of excellence (COE) in the discipline of project, programme and…
Flood responses – Business as usual, project, or something bigger?
The visit of the Environment Secretary to the flooded areas of the Somerset levels is a response to the duration and extent of the flooding. The flooding started before Christmas…
Getting to grips with Agile project management
Agile1 has gone mainstream. It is no longer the preserve of a self-selected group of devotees, but is now being discussed, and implemented, by CIOs and Change Directors in major…
Whitepaper – Delivering successful change through projects and programmes
The CITI Autumn conference of its Centres of Excellence club examined the nature of success in change management, how we measure success and the strategies used to achieve it. Surveys…
2013 CofEe Club – Defining, achieving and measuring success in change
The thirty-second meeting of CITI’s Centres of Excellence Club (CofEe Club) held on 26 September was hosted by Chris, John Lewis Partnership, London. The topic for the day was Defining, achieving…
Professional career path
It turns out that availability isn’t a project management competency – but what is? In the analysis of a survey of 500 companies we ran, there was a distinct trend…
2013 CofEe club – Capability and capacity
The thirty first meeting was held on the 27th June 2013 at FCA The topic for the day was Capability and Capacity Members engaged in lively discussions on how best to…
A chat over CofEe with Jane Rumsam…
Jane Rumsam Head of Programme and Project Assurance We caught up with Jane Rumsam, Head of Programme and Project Assurance and asked her about her experience of CofEe Club: CITI:…